Oct 6, 2017 · Here are some facts about the book and Faulkner’s very deliberate undertaking of writing a “classic.”. 1. As I Lay Dying has much in common with The Sound and the Fury. For six months
Summary and Analysis Sections 15-23. Section 15, narrated by Vardaman, begins to juxtapose various animals and their breathing. Vardaman's recollection of his rabbits, his dead fish, and his being once trapped in a crib occurs simultaneously with his inability to accept his mother's death as a physical reality. First, there is the central family situation; brothers with a weak father competing for the mother, reacting to the loss of the mother, and acting either brutally or self-destructively in an attempt to possess the mother or mother-substitute. Second, As I Lay Dying explores from another angle the isolation of the individual, human communication .